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AMD Radeon R7 260X: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R7 260X sales 8 October 2013 at a recommended price of $139. This is GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 104 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. 1 x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 115 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 17.10 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

Of Radeon R7 260X's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

203

Value for money (0-100)

22.22

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Code name

Bonaire

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

8 October 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$139

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$239

of 4403.52 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Radeon R7 260X's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R7 260X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

896

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

2,080 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

61.6 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

1,971 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R7 260X's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

170 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R7 260X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory bandwidth

104 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 260X.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R7 260X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

DDMA audio

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R7 260X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R7 260X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

17.10

Passmark

3162

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

4380

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R7 260X. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

225 Mh/s

Radeon R7 260X performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Radeon R7 260X

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

101.81 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

100.76 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

100 %

AMD Radeon R7 260X

99.82 %

AMD Radeon HD 6950

99.53 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

97.37 %

AMD Radeon HD 7790

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R7 260X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our rating.